The Yanks Are Coming Over There: Anglo-Saxonism and American Involvement in the First World War Local Authors & Illustrators Passchendaele

Passchendaele

and perhaps failed

But as sneaking buttons from uniforms hanging to dry progresses to looting the bodies of dead soldiers — and as Jurek’s obsession with being king escalates — Patryk begins to wonder whether their “button war” is still just a game

trench warfare did not win the war for one side or lose it for the other

complex personalities and rivalries

The Yanks Are Coming Over There: Anglo-Saxonism and American Involvement in the First World War Local Authors & Illustrators PasschendaeleDescription by Dino E. Buenviaje Paperback World War I was a global cataclysm that toppled centuries old dynasties and launched "the American century." Yet at the outset few Americans saw any reason to get involved in yet another conflict among the crowned heads of Europe. Despite its declared neutrality, the U. S. government gradually became more sympathetic with the Allies, until President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war on Germany to